On Tuesday 26 Sep 2006 13:26, Elizabeth Richens wrote:
Hi,
This is my first post to the list. I'm impressed by all the work that's gone into Koha, but I now have a problem and can't find the answer in the documentation nor on the mailing list archive. I'm guessing it's my lack of techie knowledge...
My library recently installed Koha 2.2.5 on Debian, but I can't get the z39.50 function to work. When I try to Add Biblio as instructed in the Koha 2.2 Users Guide, I get the message "Still ?? records to go" over and over. According to the manual, this means I haven't started the z39.50 daemon. I've tried starting the z39.50 daemon by running the script z3950-daemon-launch.sh from the command line, but it aborts with the error message "line 17: no such file or directory" (apparently it can't find z3950-daemon-options).
our /usr/local/koha//intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/z3950-daemon-options script looks like this : RunAsUser=apache RunAsUser=koha KohaZ3950Dir=/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon KohaModuleDir=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules LogDir=/usr/local/koha/log KohaConf=/etc/koha.conf I don't know if we set this up manually or if it was installed when we installed koha. I think is was probably the latter. Have you entered the details of some z3950 servers in koha ?
I noticed that the script z3950-daemon-launch.sh should actually be run during system startup from something called rc.local, but I don't know how to do this. Will the z3950 daemon launch script only work if run from a system startup file?
To automatically launch the z3950 on boot, add the following line to /etc/rc.local (just before the "touch" line) /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/z3950-daemon-launch.sh Launching the daemon manually by running the aforementioned script is fine (ie the daemon will work) provided you have entered the details of some z3950 servers in koha (see parameters > z39.50 servers) and you don't have a firewall issue. Our ISP is the LEA and they won't allow z3950 traffic through their firewall, so we use an ISDN line for searches. One gotcha is to remember to kill off all running z3950 daemons before restarting, ie # ps -ef | grep z3950 # kill -9 <pid> <pid> ... # /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/z3950-daemon-launch.sh
Can anyone tell me what's wrong and what I should look up in my Linux for Dummies book? :-)
Elizabeth Richens Buddhist Society Library London, UK
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